Disclosed herein are electronic shelf-tag systems and methods thereof. For example, an electronic shelf-tag system includes, in some embodiments a fascia configured to mount to a shelf of a shelving unit and a light-emitting diode (“LED”) array coupled to the fascia. The LED array is configured to display product information in a shared electronic shelf tag for two or more products respectively stocked in two or more consecutive shelf slots when a horizontal resolution of a portion of the LED array corresponding to at least one shelf slot of the two or more consecutive shelf slots is insufficient for displaying the product information for the product stocked in the at least one shelf slot.
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2. The electronic shelf-tag system of claim 1, wherein the shared electronic shelf tag is configured to display the individualized product information for each product of the two or more products in one or more screens.
3. The electronic shelf-tag system of claim 1, wherein the individualized product information for each product is displayed for about 3-10 seconds.
4. The electronic shelf-tag system of claim 1, wherein the electronic shelf-tag system is configured to automatically group the two or more products respectively stocked in the two or more consecutive shelf slots to share the shared electronic shelf tag.
5. The electronic shelf-tag system of claim 1, wherein the electronic shelf-tag system is configured to accept operator input for manually grouping the two or more products respectively stocked in the two or more consecutive shelf slots to share the shared electronic shelf tag.
6. The electronic shelf-tag system of claim 1, wherein the two or more products respectively stocked in the two or more consecutive shelf slots are three or more products respectively stocked in three or more consecutive shelf slots.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising sequentially displaying with the shared electronic shelf tag individualized product information for each product of the two or more products respectively stocked in the two or more consecutive shelf slots.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying with the shared electronic shelf tag the individualized product information for each product of the two or more products in one or more screens, wherein the individualized product information for each product is displayed for about 3-10 seconds.
11. The method of claim 8, further comprising detecting one or more persons proximate to the shelving unit.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying on the LED array at least the product information upon the proximity detection system detecting one or more persons proximate to the shelving unit.
13. The method of claim 8, further comprising accepting by the electronic shelf-tag system operator input for manually grouping the two or more products respectively stocked in the two or more consecutive shelf slots to share the shared electronic shelf tag.
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